saule

• IPA^(key): /sɔːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

saule (plural saules)

1. Obsolete form of soul.
   • 1802, Walter Scott, "Lyke-Wake Dirge", in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

     To purgatory fire thou comest at laste ; And Christe receive thye saule.

2. (Scotland, obsolete) A hired mourner at a funeral.

• EULAs, Laues, esaul

From Middle French saule, from Old French saule (“willow”), from Gaulish salico (“willow”), from Proto-Celtic *salik, from Proto-Indo-European *salǝḱ-, *salǝk- (“willow”). Cognate with Old High German salaha (“willow”), Old English sealh (“willow”), Latin salix (“willow, willow branch”), Middle Irish sail (“willow”). More at sallow.

Old French saule displaced Old French sauz (“willow”), from Latin salix.

• IPA^(key): /sol/

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• Rhymes: -ol
• Homophone: saules

saule m (plural saules)

1. willow, willow tree

• saule fragile
• saule pleureur

• “saule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• salue, salué

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sáuˀlijāˀ. Cognates include Latvian saule and Lithuanian saulė.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsàu̯lʲæ]
• Hyphenation: sau‧le

saule f (diminutive sauleite)

1. sun

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 11

• Saule

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sáuˀlijāˀ.

• IPA^(key): [sāūle]

saule f (5th declension)

1. sun (the star at the center of the Solar System, from which light and heat reach the Earth)
   • saule spīd ― the sun is shining
   • rīta, vakara, vasaras saule ― morning, evening, summer sun
   • saule lec, riet ― the sun rises, sets
   • saules lēkts, riets ― sunrise, sunset
   • celties līdz ar sauli ― to rise with the sun (= early)
   • saules stari, gaisma, siltums ― sun beams, light, heat
   • saules sistēma ― Solar System
   • saules aptumsums ― solar eclipse
   • saules vējš ― solar wind
   • saules plankumi ― sun spots
   • saules enerģija ― solar energy
2. sun, sunlight (the light and heat that comes from the sun; area reached by this light and heat)
   • sildīties saulē ― to bask in the sun
   • istabā nav saules ― in the room there is no sun
   • kaktusiem vajadzīgs daudz saules ― cactuses need much sun
   • acis žilbst saulē ― eyes are dazzled in the sun
   • atlaisties saulē ― to sit in the sun
3. (poetic) world
   • šajā saulē dzivot ― to live in this world
   • aiziet viņā saulē ― to go away from this world, to die

When used to refer to the central star of the Solar System, especially if seen as a location, saule is often capitalized: Saule.

• aizsaule
• pasaule
• saulains
• saulesbrilles, saules brilles
• saules sistēma
• saules vējš
• sauļup

• sauļot, sauļoties

• saule at tezaurs.lv

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑulɛ/

saule

1. instrumental singular of saulė
2. vocative singular of saulė

Borrowed from Middle French saoulee, soûlée, past participle of saouler, soûler; compare sauled.

• saulee, sauly, sawle, sawlee, sawli, soule

• IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈleː/, /ˈsau̯leː/

saule (uncountable)

1. One's fill; a sufficient amount of food.

• “saulẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

saule

1. Alternative form of sowel (“staff, stake”)

saule

1. (chiefly Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of soule